Imperial

Imperial is a WordPress theme with no specific focus. It's not sure if it wants to be a personal blog, or house an online magazine. It's not even sure if it's black or white, for that matter!

• WordPress menu for the main navigation.
• Standard featured images (post thumbnails), with fall-back custom field method for images.
• Support for custom backgrounds.
• Custom built reviews module allows you to easily add any type of review (product, service, etc.) to a post.
• 2 full colour schemes – dark and light.
• User specified “accent” colour can be chosen from a colour picker in WP-Admin for easy customization.
• Custom built theme settings panel within WP-Admin that allows you to customize the theme without editing any templates.
• Flexible logo space allows images up to 900px wide and any height. Image path and dimensions are entered in WP-Admin.
• Easily link to social networks you take part in, with support for 28 of the most popular sites.
• Both sidebars are widgetized.
• Custom widgets for the 3 main ad spots (4 125×125 buttons, 300×250 bigbox, 160×600 skyscraper). 728×90 leaderboard and 468×60 banner also supported.
• Super lean markup and CSS , makes advanced customization a pleasure.
• Tested on Windows and Mac. Looks great in all modern browsers. Some details are toned down for older versions of IE, but nothing is broken.
• Support for Twitter Tools, FlickrRSS, WP-PageNavi, and Subscribe to Comments plugins out of the box.
• Original PSD included!

• Imperial uses Tim McDaniels' TimThumb script for resizing the images used in the featured posts sections and in archive listings.TimThumb requires the GD library, which is available on any host sever with PHP 4 .3+ installed.

Version 1.8 - Released: 12/22/2011

• Fixed custom backgrounds for WP 3.3.
• Replaced a bunch of deprecated functions through-out.
• Updated bundled jQuery to 1.7.1, Slides JS to 1.1.9, and TimThumb to 2.8.5.

Version 1.7.5 - Released: 08/04/2011

• Fixed a bug that caused sticky posts to be shown first in the featured posts slider, recent posts widget, reviews widget, and on the reviews page.
• Added meta tag which forces Internet Explorer to run in standards mode. Ironically, this breaks HTML validation.
• Added Google+ icon to social profiles.
• Moved Theme Settings panel under Appearance, so it's accessible from the Themes page along with Background, Menus, and Widgets.
• Updated bundled TimThumb to version 1.34 and jQuery to 1.6.2.

Version 1.7 – Released: 04/11/2011

• Fixed a bug that prevented legacy post images from working.
• Changed how jQuery is enqueued. Now only loaded on the homepage and single posts to improve compatibility with plugins.
• Added meta tag to force IE to render as the latest version in standards mode, for better compatibility.
• Upgraded bundled scripts.

Version 1.6 – Released: 02/22/2011

• NEW Ability to turn any post into a review. From books to movies, music to video games. The criteria is set on a per-post basis, so there is absolutely no limitation on what you can review. Also included is a reviews widget to show your most recent reviews, and a reviews archive template.
• NEW Custom backgrounds using the standard WP functionality.
• NEW Featured posts slider now rotates on its own and is powered by SlidesJS.
• NEW Edit meta description and keywords from Theme Settings.
• NEW Styled embedded image galleries and added lightbox functionality (ColorBox) for links to full-size images.
• Fixed a bug that limited the nav dropdowns to 2 levels - now goes (back up to) 4.
• Updated bundled scripts (jQuery, TimThumb, etc.) to the latest versions.

Version 1.5 - Released: 08/13/2010

• Better implementation of Menus.
• Added a save button between each section in Theme Settings.

Version 1.4 - 06/17/2010

• Added category pull-down to Theme Settings panel to make featured category selection easier.
• Fixed a bug in the light stylesheet which gave images on the homepage a dark border.

Version 1.3 - 05/19/2010

• NEW Support for sub-pages (4 levels deep!) in the main navigation using a simple CSS solution. Doesn't work in IE6 (intentional).
• NEW WP 3.0 Menus support for main navigation.
• NEW WP 2.9+ Post Thumbnails - old method still in tact for backwards compatibility.
• NEW CSS3 text-shadow applied to text used in the nav, headings, and buttons in order to add depth.
• Fixed a bug that prevented code from being properly escaped in the head include.
• Fixed 125x125 buttons widget to allow use of non-image ads, such as AdSense.
• Fixed the layout of the 404 template.
• Fixed missing placeholder images.
• Fixed IE specific stylesheets to exclude IE8. This corrects a couple minor display bugs in IE8.
• Updated bundled TimThumb to version 1.14.
• Bundled help documentation with the theme itself, so it can be accessed from WP-Admin.

Version 1.2 - 09/21/2009

• Updated Theme Settings panel to include a description under each option.
• Fixed margins on post thumbnails for Internet Explorer.
• Fixed a style bug where a couple of dark images were being displayed in the comments area of the light scheme.
• Added text above the comment form if there are no comments on the post.
• Increased height of header-top.jpg images to make them 4x taller to allow for large logos.

Version 1.1 - 07/06/2009

• Wrapped call to Subscribe to Comments plugin in conditional statement.
• Moved post tnail under title and date in archive listings.
• Comment form now jumps to current position when replying to a comment.  Cancel restores it to original position.

Version 1.0 - 06/26/2009

• Initial release.

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